Bug 1391861 (CVE-2016-9179)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9179 lynx: Invalid URL parsing of pages containing '?'
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, dkholia, kdudka
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Bug Depends On:	1391862
Bug Blocks:	1391864

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-04 09:24:13 UTC

It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/322

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-04 09:25:26 UTC

Created lynx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1391862]